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This poem is from today's Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Seas Beneath" square in my 1-6-26 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Kraken and Mercedes threads of the Polychrome Heroics series.

"Beneath the Sea"
-- a hexaduad

Jules reads
job feeds.
Come work beneath the sea!
Stock Cans; room and board free.
He knows it's good work and good pay,
but should he go or should he stay?
Tides rise and fall,
feelings, sea call.
Beach, a liminal place;
teen, in similar space.
Jules scans the shore,
texts, Tell me more.

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Notes:

Read about the hexaduad form.

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siderea

2026 Jan 6: Görkem Şen (Yaybahar on YT): Yaybahar III Nadiri

Watch on YouTube

The description text:

The essence of gold was rare, he conquered with his virtue, offered his gifts and fell behind the sun...

Dedicated to the soul of my dear friend's father, Nadir Oğuz...

I am surmising that "Nadiri" means "Of Nadir". Yaybahar is the instrument, the artist is its inventor:

The name yaybahar (pronounced /jajba'har/) has Turkish origin. It is a composite of two words: yay means a "string" or a "coiled string" and bahar means the season "spring." According to Gorkem Sen, the name is derived from the idea of a new life or a new beginning. [1]

I assume this is the third one of its kind the artist has made.

Artist's website: https://www.gorkemsen.com/

ysabetwordsmith

Nearly all women in STEM secretly feel like impostors

A striking 97.5% of women pursuing graduate degrees in STEM report moderate or higher levels of impostorism.

Nearly all women in STEM graduate programs report feeling like impostors, despite strong evidence of success. This mindset leads many to dismiss their achievements as luck and fear being “found out.” Research links impostorism to worse mental health, higher burnout, and increased thoughts of dropping out. Supportive environments and shifting beliefs about intelligence may help break the cycle.

That's probably because 97.5% of their male coworkers are misogynistic assholes, and so are a lot of people even outside of STEM.

After decades of being told that girls are bad at math, go play with dolls, harassment as soon as their breasts start growing, male students being put in charge of groups, professors stealing their work, getting lower grades than they deserve, struggling to find a job, their name being left off papers or awards, promotions going to less-qualified males, fighting for funds ... of course women realize that they are aren't wanted, aren't welcome, and nobody likes them.

The last 2.5% of women in STEM? They don't give a shit if people like them, and they aren't there to stroke anyone's ego or penis. Shut up and work. Impostor syndrome? It can be beaten to death with facts.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly cloudy and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a large flock of sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/6/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/6/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 1/6/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

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ysabetwordsmith

This is today's freebie, inspired by a prompt from

jake67jake.

Maduro kidnapped --
he was quite unpopular,
but it was still wrong

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Notes:

Read a discussion of Venezuela politics.

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ysabetwordsmith

The Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you all for your time and attention.

Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "short forms." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

I'll be soliciting poetic forms of 60 lines or less, so basically below my epic range rather than only the short-short length of 10 lines or less. Free verse below the length limit is also fine. Here are 15 short forms with descriptions. Among my favorite short forms not listed there: hexaduad, indriso, sestina, villanelle. This list of 168 forms is alphabetical. Poets Garrett has my favorite list of forms, including a list of repeating-interlocking forms. Their main page has links to poetic forms of 3-10 lines. Plus a few of my own: A darrow poem is a short, haiku-like musing by dark elves. A khazal is a Whispering Sands desert poem in couplets. A moose track is a repeating-interlocking form. A tweet wire is a tiny 10-line poem designed for Twitter. Some short forms, like haiku and tanka, work well as verses in a longer poem. I have The New Book of Forms by Lewis Turco so most forms should be in there. You can also prompt with a link to any exotic form you find; I collect these things.

In addition to forms, I also need topical prompts. One-word or short-phrase framing will assist in keeping them small enough to fit within the theme. Here is a huge list of common themes. This page of idioms has alphabetical and topical listings. I love writing poems about an individual word; see The Phrontistery (WARNING! Black hole caliber time sink ahead!) for glossaries. Have an orientation that is not well represented in literature? Ask for a sexual, romantic, or other orientation! If it's not on any of my lists, just include a description or link to one. I also list gender identities and my characters with disabilities. Want to help me play with my bookshelf? :D I have The Conflict Thesaurus, The Conflict Thesaurus Volume 2, The Occupation Thesaurus, The Emotional Wound Thesaurus, The Urban Setting Thesaurus, The Rural Setting Thesaurus, The Emotion Thesaurus, The Positive Trait Thesaurus, The Negative Trait Thesaurus, and The Emotion Amplifier Thesaurus. Simply click "Read Sample" and view the table of contents for a list of cool ideas. You can prompt a sestina with six end words; I usually pick 5 short flexible words and one long exotic word, but I'll work with whatever I get. Favorite characters, threads, series, settings, etc. are also fair game but this is NOT the time for long plotty prompts. Consider combining a name or title with a short form, theme, or idiom. If you like to prompt with photos, this is a great opportunity for that. Just type in a topic (see above for possibilities) and click the Image link in your favorite search engine.

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rionaleonhart

This was so much fun to write.

Title: The Fic That Goes Wrong
Fandom: The Goes Wrong Show
Rating: G
Wordcount: 1,400

Good evening, and welcome to another edition of 'Fic of the Week'. I am Chris Bean, the author.

Tonight’s story is a classic tale of huddling for warmth. The cast is a little tighter than most of our works, but I think that will ultimately make for a more focused piece. I have taken every possible measure to ensure that everything will run smoothly.

Please enjoy tonight’s work of fanfiction, 'Two’s Company'.

( The Fic That Goes Wrong )

cosmolinguist

It was my turn to select a book club book, after the very good and very extensively researched literary fiction which was also very long so we didn't actually have a meeting to chat about it until well in to December.

And at said meeting, C and I got talking about Alexander Skarsgård for some reason, and she asked me if I'd seen the Murderbot TV show so I said I liked it okay but not as much as I liked the books. She said she hadn't read them, and I was like oh you really should try, I'd love to know what you think of them. And when S said she hadn't read them either, I said "Okay, that's it, I've got my book sorted, I'm gonna make you all read the first Murderbot book."

After the great but lengthy book we'd read (There are Rivers in the Sky; I really recommend it!), and over the break, I thought something quick and light would be good and the first "book," like the next few, is only about four hours long in audio form. So when someone asked if it was worth buying them all at once I explained this, and also emphasized that while I'm not the only audiobook-preferrer in our club, I'd recommend it for this because I think Kevin R. Free adds a lot to the stories -- having originally read them in audio myself, I can't imagine the books, or Murderbot, without him (I thought Mr. Skarsgård did a passable job at sounding right, for this reason).

Now we're back at work, some people like S haven't finished that first one, but C is on to Book 6 -- which I haven't even read yet, heh. I'm delighted to have introduced her to something she loves. (She agrees with me about the narrator, saying he's "great -- I do find myself saying 'stupid humans' quite a lot at the moment.") She said

It has been great company, in particular listening to it during the early hours of Christmas morning, waiting for the perfect opportunity when both of my darling children were actually asleep so I could deliver their stockings, stop pretending to be Santa, and get some sleep myself!

This image made me grin so much.

malurette

Titre : Les demoiselles de Rochefort
Composition : Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand, Gilles Rico
Langue : français
Type : comédie musicale
Genre : comédie romantique
1ère sortie : 1962 pour le film ?

Durée : 2h15 avec entracte
Où ? au Lido

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Les chansons étaient très bien interprétées, l'utilisation du décor modulable impressionnante, les danses et les acrobaties époustouflantes. Sans être aussi fan que le reste de ma famille j'ai beaucoup apprécié l'expérience. Et puis on ne va pas se mentir : le vrai bonheur c'est d'avoir vu ma petite sœur vivre sa meilleure vie cet après-midi ♥ apparemment la grande et les petites nièces sont ravies aussi ?

What can I say about The Young Girls from Rochefort that hasn't already been told..? other than, the film was already an impressive musical ; putting it on a theatre scene is incredible too? and for spectacle's sake we'll forgive the creepy vibes of relationships that aged badly?

james_davis_nicoll

What was the purpose behind raising an unconventional child like Thorn?

Cuckoo’s Egg by C J Cherryh

gingicat

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

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viridian5

For 2025, I posted 8 fics and one WIP in progress, which is a pretty good output for me for recent years.

( The fics )

Meanwhile, I have some long WIPs I'm working on, even aside from "Long, Long Way to Go."

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One of the LJ accounts I'm trying to import, Aya's, has failed at the "Verifying username/password" stage four times, and since nothing else happens without verification, nothing is importing. DreamWidth Support says it's probably an issue on LiveJournal's side; hope things work out for you! Which is not helpful. The other LJ account I did, Schuldig's, didn't have this problem. WTF do I do now?

Wait for another time, I guess, and see if a different day makes a difference. I'll have to manually keep retrying, since the verification attempt is a one and done thing. It failed. Oh well.

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A longtime fandom friend of mine has gotten into The Pitt, and I managed to catch the last two episodes of season one during an HBO marathon this weekend. It's fun having a fandom in common I can talk about with her again.

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I put up my 2025's

threeforthememories post.

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Current Music: "Lock It Up" by Eminem feat. Anderson .Paak

ysabetwordsmith

These poems were written outside the regular prompt calls. They have been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred.

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ysabetwordsmith

A NASA satellite caught a giant tsunami doing something scientists didn’t expect

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were far more complex and scattered than scientists expected, overturning the idea that large tsunamis travel as a single, stable wave. Ocean sensors confirmed the quake’s rupture was longer than earlier models suggested. Together, the findings could reshape how tsunamis are modeled and predicted.

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ysabetwordsmith

These are the notes for "Who We Don't Ever Want to Be."

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james_davis_nicoll

My new group created Outgunned characters. The cast is

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ysabetwordsmith

This poem is spillover from the February 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

fuzzyred. It also fills the "nostalgia" square in my 2-1-25 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Trichromatic Attractions thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes sobriety issues, angst, failed coping skills, self-loathing, difficulty planning, frustration with new skills, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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jazzfish

Little movement this year.

( anno sargasso )

ysabetwordsmith

JANUARY 2026 BOOK: THE SPELLSHOP

bookclub_dw has chosen The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst as our book for January.

I'll make the discussion post on January 31, 2026. If you have any discussion questions you'd like to be considered, please comment to this post.

Looking for something new to read? This community works just like a facetime book club -- members pick a title per month, read it, and talk about it. \o/

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aatroxirl posting in

addme_fandom

i want to start using this site a bit more, so why not.
name: aatrox
age: early 20s
country: im in latin america.
subscription/access policy: i dont plan on making anything friends/access only, not right now anyway. so sub if you think reading my stuff would be cool. i dont plan on posting any NSFW, and id appreciate if you didnt give me access if you post NSFW frequently.

main fandoms: switches a lot, but currently its sega dreamcast games (especially sonic & phantasy star), pokemon, league of legends, and madoka magica.
other fandoms: mario & dk, undertale, 07th expansion, danganronpa, touhou, ace attorney, fighting games, homicipher, houseki no kuni. i have more interests on my sticky post, but its a bit outdated.
fannish interests: art, selfshipping, meta & analysis. also into internet archeology, which naturally bleeds over to fandom. i dont read fanfics.
ships: hard time naming any that would match with someone else nowadays, because all i like is crackships. its easier to name ships i dislike than like.

i like to post about: ive been mostly posting reviews of games ive played recently, but like i said i might start posting more general stuff. i dont currently plan on posting anything thats too outside fannish interests, so dont worry if you dont want to see unrelated rambles.
journal info: i make lenghty posts that ramble a lot and i dont typically cut them. SORRY.
other info: i dont plan on getting into this kind of discourse here, but right off the bat, if youre into ships that are between adult and children, or incest, or indulge in erotic content that involves characters who are children, dont interact with me please. for less serious topics, we might not get super along if youre more into works that are live action/use real actors, its just not stuff im into. finally im a selfshipper and its a big part of my online identity; feel free to ask for details if youre also into that, but dont involve me in discourse.

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Tales & Trails of a Traveling Wiseguy

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Birdfeeding

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Poetry Fishbowl Open!

Fanfiction: The Fic That Goes Wrong (The Goes Wrong Show)

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[musical] Les demoiselles de Rochefort

Cuckoo’s Egg by C J Cherryh

more apocalyptic signs

I had to reach back

Poem: Darrow Poems 12-12-25

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Poem: "Who We Don't Ever Want to Be"

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